Barn Finds was my first attempt at a Hot Wheels series. It was intended to represent how you might find a classic car today if it were stored poorly in a barn or field. I wish I had done more with the backs, but then again Hot Wheels wasn’t doing too much with the backs either …
JS0002 Barn Finds #2 of 4 – 1936 Auburn 852 Speedster Read More »
I started really collecting Hot Wheels in 2007. It was a wild-west situation. You could go into a Toys R Us, Rite-Aid, or occasionally Wal-Mart and find cars that were upwards of 5 years old. After some collecting I thought to make my own series called Barn Finds. The JS0001 is short for John Spangler …
“”On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy.” – Kevin Flynn, TRON (1982) I grew up going to arcades or playing games after being at the water park, pizza place, or bowling alley. My favorite game of all time was TRON. I remember even getting to play it a few times …
“Open, Dammit, Open!” – Ultra Magnus I wanted to see the ’86 Transformers movie SO BAD when I was a kid, but the critics panned it, citing violence, etc. so my parents said no. Well, that left me in a lurch of not understaning what happened to my favorite characters for a long time. …
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T-195 Exhaust vent.. Just another mysterious Time Machine part. Another neat part of the Time Machine, this was given to me as a rough resin casting part. I did a ton of research on this part, which rests at the very rear of the car between the big black vents. Apparently it is an exhaust …
Punch in those coordinates, Marty. Back to the Future was quite influential on me, so as a result I try to collect various parts of the Time Machine. My friend made a mold of the original keypad and gave me some less than perfect castings for me to work with. I worked hard to clean …
The Cadillac of Couches As a kid we had a family friend who had a big beautiful 1980s Caddy, and it seemed the pinnacle of luxury was to ride around in the back seat, feeling quite chauffered. For some reason that translated some 20 years later into me making this couch of out a back …
Kit: MPC Country Charger 1969 Dodge Charger 1/25 Scale Quentin Tarantino’s tribute to 1970s car films “Death Proof” featured this Charger in the second half of the film. I did this as a class project in 2020 but really any excuse to make a model is a good one! The car is used by Stuntman …
Kit: AMT 1970 Dodge Challenger Street Machine 1/25 Scale I’m not sure where I got this kit from but this is a sweet car. I did a full suspension job on the front end. And the rear.. well, it’s kinda suspension-y. Ok not really. Nice clean interior as typical from 1960s/70s cars. Some of the …
Kit: Monogram 1969 Dodge Charger 1/24 Scale The last scenes of “Mystery Men” had two old Dodge Chargers made up like police cars. That inspired me to make something in that vein as well. I’ve got no shortage of Dodge Charger kits and police car bits so I figured why not? This was just a …